Social Welfare Act, 1997

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Family income supplement (new weekly rates etc.).

6.—(1) Section 197 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for the definition of “weekly family income” of the following definition:

“‘weekly family income’ means, subject to regulations under section 202, the amount of income received in a week by a family, less—

(i) any allowable contribution referred to in Regulations 59 and 60 (inserted by the Income Tax (Employment) Regulations, 1972 ( S.I. No. 260 of 1972 )) of the Income Tax (Employments) Regulations, 1960 ( S.I. No. 28 of 1960 ),

(ii) any amount deducted from reckonable earnings pursuant to—

(A) section 10 and regulations made under section 11,

(B) section 5 of the Health Contributions Act, 1979 , and

(C) section 16 of the Youth Employment Agency Act, 1981 ,

and

(iii) any income of a person who in respect of that family is a child.”.

(2) Subsection (1) shall apply in the case of a claim to family income supplement made on or after the 12th day of June, 1997.

(3) The Principal Act is hereby amended by the substitution for section 198 (inserted by section 6 of the Act of 1996) of the following section:

“Entitlement to supplement.

198.—Subject to this Act, an allowance (in this Act referred to as ‘family income supplement’) shall be payable out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas in respect of a family where the weekly family income is less than—

(a) in the case of a family which includes only 1 child, £205,

(b) in the case of a family which includes 2 children, £225,

(c) in the case of a family which includes 3 children, £245,

(d) in the case of a family which includes 4 children, £265,

(e) in the case of a family which includes 5 children, £290,

(f) in the case of a family which includes 6 children, £310,

(g) in the case of a family which includes 7 children, £327,

or

(h) in the case of a family which includes 8 or more children, £344.”.

(4) Subsection (3) shall come into operation on the 12th day of June, 1997.